File Roller (formerly also called Archive Manager) is the default archive manager program on Ubuntu. Its logo is a grey box with a zipper. An archive manager is a computer program that helps the user to extract and create archive or compressed archive files such as ZIP, RAR, TAR.GZ, 7ZIP and so on. File Roller helps you doing all that with good integration to Ubuntu desktop. Originally, File Roller is a part of GNOME and had been adopted as default on Ubuntu thanks to their strong and close relationship as Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. To Ubuntu users, File Roller fills the same purpose to WinZIP or WinRAR to Windows users. This article is part of our published compilation List of Ubuntu Default Applications and Their Purposes. We hope this helps everyone including you Ubuntu beginners. Now let's start sharing Free Software together once again!

 

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